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(No ModeL) S. T. AT-KIN & W. L. STEELE.

GUFF HOLDER.

Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

E E E E E WIT NITED STATES PATEN SAMUEL T. ATKIN AND WALTER L. STEELE,OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO OLIVER STEELE, OF SAMEPLAGE.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.330,282, dated November10, 1885.

Application filed March 27, 1885. Serial No. 160,251. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL T. ATKIN and WALTER L. STEELE, citizens ofthe United States of America, residing at Georgetown, in the county ofWVilliamson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our improvement in cuff-holders is designed for securing cuffs tocoat-sleeves; and it consists in its peculiar construction, and in thenovel combination and arrangement of its parts, substantially ashereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in perspective of ourcuff-ho1der. Figs. 2 and 3 are modifications thereof enlarged beyondactual size in practice to more clearly show construction. Fig. 4 is aplan view of Fig. 1, the clasp being partially removed; and Fig. 5 is aside elevation of the cuff-holder as shown in Fig. 1.

The object of our invention is chiefly to render cuffs hitherto buttonedto shirt-sleeves as readily buttoned or attached to coat-sleeves, inorder that they may be removed from the wearers person together with thecoat to prevent the cuffs being soiled; and its object is also to avoidunbuttoning and buttoning cuffs to the shirt by means of the usualcuff-attaching buttons, which is at present as requisite as customarywith all those who remove or change their coats preliminary to engagingin their daily duties or avocations. Cuffs thus attached may also beadjusted more readily than others otherwise attached as to the extent towhich they project beyond the end of the wearers coat-sleeve.

In accomplishing these objects we form the cuff-button A, (see Fig. 1,)to which the cuff is attached, of horizontal and corresponding wireloops, a and b, terminating in the twisted strands B and B. The twistedstrands B and 13 project vertically and at right-angles to thecuff-button A to form its shank B, and after forming said shank incontinuation project horizontally and in opposite directions, but inabout the same horizontal plane, the strand B being coiled at one end toform a spring,

B for actuating the pin 0, which isa continuation thereof, as shown.

The pin 0 is secured, as against accidental release, by the clasp D,having a horizontal recess, D, for its reception, the clasp being acontinuation of strand B, which projects in a direction opposite tostrand B. The clasp D is formed by zigzagging the end of strand B, andbending the same into small curved loops, as shown. Thus constructed,the pin is attached to the inside or lining of the coatsleeve and thecuff is buttoned to the cuff button A.

A modification of our invention is shown in Fig. 3, wherein E representsa folded piece of sheet metal having in its outer face, 6, an aperture,E, through which is projected the smaller disk of the cuff-button F, themetal being held in its folded position by the prongs d d, projectingfrom its lower fold, e, and bent and clasped over the upper aperturedfold, e, the aperture E being smaller in diameter than the inclosedlargerdisk of the button. In clasping together the folds of sheet metalthe rib f of the safety-pin g is inserted between them, as shown, whichpermanently secures the pin thus positioned, which in practice is pinnedto the inside or lining of the coatsleeve, as aforesaid.

. Another modification is shown in Fig. 2, enlarged, where a piece ofsheet metal, G, is looped to form the shank h in such manner as toprovide at the upper end of the loop a suitable eye, h, for reception ofthe rib t of the safety-ping, the ribi being bent into a curved orconcaved form where the sheet metal G is attached thereto, whichsecurely holds the pin and button in position and provides thecorresponding arms H as an equivalent for the disk of a button.

We are aware that it is not broadly new to form a cuff-holder of onecontinuous piece of wire forming a clamping device arranged transverselyof the main portion, adapted to grasp the outer overlapping edge of thecuff; but, asgthus constructed, such devices have been found to beinadequate for the designated purpose, inasmuch as they frequentlybecome detached from the cuff by the IllSllfElciency of the strength ofthe said clamping device. This objection our invention is designed toremedy, as we provide, in connection with a safety-pin, a shank orbutton to enter the button-hole of the cuff and permit of the adjustmentof the pin at any desired point of connection with the coat-sleeve.

Our invention comprises few parts and has suitable means for theprotection of the point of the pin, thereby preventing tearing of thecoat-sleeve and the possible scratching or pricking of the flesh of thewearer.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cuff-holder having the button A, twisted shank B, and the spring13, for actuating the pin 0, all made of one continuous piece of wire,substantially as shown and described.

2. A cuff-holder consisting of button A, having twisted shank B, andsafety-pin 0, 20 substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

Witnesses:

A. B. MORRIS, R. G. GoNNEY.

